Friday, September 21, 2007

Cute Monkeys & Top 10

I come across these monkeys (pic) while browsing the net. Cute isn’t it!


Ten Most Polluted Places

The national geography released an article of World's Top 10 Most Polluted Places. It includes India’s Sukinda. The home to one of the world's largest chromite mines used to make steel stainless, among other things and 2.6 million people, the waters of this valley contain carcinogenic hexavalent chromium compounds courtesy of 30 million tons of waste rock lining the Brahmani River.

Ukraine’s Chernoby. The fallout from the world's worst nuclear power accident continues to accumulate, affecting as many as 5.5 million people and leading to a sharp rise in thyroid cancer.

Russia’s Dzerzinsk. A center of Cold War chemical manufacturing, the city's 300,000 residents have one of the lowest life expectancies in the world thanks to waste injected directly into the ground.

Zambia’s Kabwe. The second largest city in this southern African country was home to one of the world's largest lead smelters until 1987. As a result, the entire city is contaminated with the heavy metal, which can cause brain and nerve damage in children and fetuses.

Peru’s La Oroya. Although this is one of the smallest communities on the list (population 35,000) it is also one of the most heavily polluted due to lead, copper and zinc mining by U.S.-based Doe Run mining company.

China’s Linfen. A city in the heart of China's coal region in Shanxi Province, its three million inhabitants choke on dust and drink arsenic that leaches from the fossil fuel.

Russia’s Norilsk. This city above the Arctic Circle contains the world's largest metal smelting complex and, therefore, some of the world's worst smog. "There is so much pollution going into the air from this place that there is no living piece of grass or shrub within 30 kilometers of the city.

Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Write in correctly

Writing is one important that changes our life. The satisfaction we get from writing on our hands and reading it, gives the interest has comes from my own experience. Mom used to tell I wrote alphabets and numbers before going to school, and after that is the papers next to slate and chalk that wishes to write more. It was the single, double and four ruler sheets for different subjects, particularly the four rulers used for English inspire me to write. There have the lines for small and capital letters, writing according to the rise and down of letter inside the lines taught me the easy way of writing. Actually my writing would be like scribbling, but it’s all the gentle goes to my tuition teacher who corrected me by holding my hands to give practice in join writing. It was the comfort I couldn’t get in school where we have to follow the teachers writing on the board in fast, but it was the scold I would get from her after returning to tuition with the scribbling notes. I could only realize it then and now the way I learn to write and spell the words from her.

Today the world is changing towards computerization; every thing was done through pressing the keys. The more the writing we use only till our campus life, that too are changing to digital format now, where a laptop for student instead of notes and books. When their was emails, whom to write letters and post, too little are doing that. Even the message to know was typed through keys, not in pen; the only thing is signatures were done. The bundles of files and writing works in offices are doing through computers, where the writings are in folders in some corner of the hard disk. The laziness in writing discloses in today’s young’s, somewhere they expect the help from family members or known to do their works.

What we write is nothing, the tool we use to write important. I am thankful to my school which was very strict in using ink pens (fountain pens) and the habit I still follow today. After the school life, I was in touch with writing even now I find time to write a page everyday. I feel that writing in hands does much, that more do the pen we use. Many of us may not realize the harm of using ballpoint pen, and the refill that used to write; nowadays the similar one to ballpoint was the Gel pen that was encouraged by some institutes. More over these pens are made of plastic that was harm to environment, ones the refill was finished we throw it and it wasn’t a recycling thing and the plastic releases poisonous fumes in the atmosphere that cause cancer when it was destroyed. In average the refill stands for a month and so according to the much we use, and then it was replaced by new one or by a new pen itself. With just 100 million people out of the 150 million uses plastic ballpoint, then we have something like a billion plastic pens and ten billion refills with one a month.

An alternative to the ballpoint is the only fountain pen, because of taking time to filling inks often many of us avoid it, but it was the best pen for us and environment. The bottles that store the ink can be reusable, so use a fountain pen that was a perfect and for friendly writing and if you care for environment tell bye to ballpoint and go to fountain pens.

Monday, September 17, 2007

Celebrate (a celebrity too)

The clay Ganesh was brought on the day before couple of hours to worship. The sundal, sugar pongal, vadai…. Were shown to him and ate by us. On any special day the entire time was before television with some nice and bored programs with all special foods as snacks to grind. It was the day for a new channel to enter the entertainment world for homemade, actually it’s a channel for Ads and remaining times for programs it seems. Ho I loss the endurance watching films on TV. Evening their were some drops, but it wouldn’t disturbed the ganesh procession from our street temple. Today the clay ganesh was immerse into the tub to dissolve, and then to pour at earth from the usual way of dissolving in sea. I think it would take some days to become dissolve fully.

It was an expected day to meet one of my dear cousin bro, who comes in a short holiday from his hostel. We don’t know he was over worried of leaving all of us or any other reason for his leanness, I was kept holding his hand for sometime. There was the movie Periyar on Sunday in TV, one of the looked film to watch. I was to tell it was nice to know a great leader of India, his simplicity, thoughts, and the struggle put me on stand to think. It wonders to know he has some policy disliked with Mahatma Gandhi’s. His oppose on some blind beliefs on religious ceremonies, the attacks from the upper caste on his true statements and self respect for everyone were captured well in the film to how people could understand. Proud to have such leader for our country and felt to have none like him now. His decent way of approach on politics and keeping the private relation with them in lovable manner surprises. An admiring act by Sathyaraj as Periyar. Hope u all had a nice celebration too.




Friday, September 14, 2007

V 4 only

Inimae Naangathan the very first 3D animation film in Tamil was released this Friday. A film with cheerful characters of four friends Vichu, Varathu, Vaithi, Govinth. It sounds different is it, we had animations film that was dubbed in Tamil, but which was fully created in Tamil is the first time. Film with a low budget of 35 million, was technically Directed by S. Venky Boboo, who himself wrote the story screenplay and produced by S. Sridevi. Voice for the characters is sure to make laugh, the comedians Pandu, M.S. Basker, Vasu Vikram… done a good job.

Music my Maestro Illaiyaraaja, it was few months back I watched a review about Inimae Naangathan in SunTv on a special day. From that movement I was attracted by this film, and excite to know its release, the music was one I liken in the film. It has some sweet song Orumurai Kettalea... was fun listening and watching, Illaiyaraaja’s vocal surprise the song in the soft instruments. I was searching for its music, but couldn’t find… but the first line would always exist in me is the Vazvu Venduma va va…. the inspiring lyrics would really catch with young’s. I was wishing to watch this film soon. Here the trailer and a song of the Inimae Naangathan, enjoy.


Trailer


Orumurai Kettalea...

Thursday, September 13, 2007

Scenes of tsunami trigger

After the recent earthquake off Indonesia coast, the tsunami warning along the Indian coast was announced by govt. The residents near to sea were made shifted to safe places, police and other forces kept ready to tackle any situation. The drama of Tsunami end after 3 hours when the Indonesia withdraws the warning, but the fear continues in people where they kept themselves away from the shores and some spend the night at streets. Some scenes of Tsunami fear here.

Tsunami fear

The always crowded marina was deserted after the walkers and visitors were forced to move...